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Message Slowbeef about your idea, he'll tell you whether it'll fly or not. Then write up your first update and post it in the Sandcastle. They'll tell you what you need to do before making a thread, like fix your image quality or get an okay from Slowbeef. Alternatively, don't LP Pokemon at all because it's kind of really boring unless you are super good or have a gimmick like not actually playing a Pokemon game or something.
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Please do not do anything with Pokemon unless you are a super creative person of some kind.
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Coolguye posted:You can't really evaluate that properly without having the source video (and I'm out and about so I couldn't do it right this minute anyway). That said, my own experience with futzing around is basically that an increased bitrate can help, but it's sometimes not enough to make a huge difference unless you really go all out. 1k->2k bitrate might give you 'crap' to 'decent', but it might take 2k->5k to go from 'decent' to 'great'. Youtube is always gonna downsample you based on the resolution, but if your video is crystal clear to begin with the damage will be less noticeable. The source video is already encoded at 2.5kbps, and looks crystal clear to me. I'll try it again at a higher res but I'm not optimistic. I've been avoiding making HD video because the source footage caps out at 512x448, and upsampling just to downsample seems wasteful and lossy. Will give it a try though. Niggurath posted:I really think this looks good in a visual sense, the problem is that you have a lot of text on-screen and even outside the timing I think it's going to deter people from trying to read out entire paragraphs worth of information. Is this information that wouldn't technically be put in the OP of your thread or would there be any harm in reading it out accompanied by the images and video? I went back and looked at the attract mode video I'm parodying and they use one or two lines max per job. I think I'll try that and save the fancy write-up for an actual post. Going from a screenshot mentality to hybrid, I think I overcompensated and ended up in video, and fell too in love with my concept. Thanks for the reality check. ivantod posted:Haha, so you ARE going to play the IZJS version then after all, huh? Gonna let the thread participate in picking jobs and Espers too. But not by popular vote, or sadistic assholes would make me roll with six Machinists. BrainWeasel fucked around with this message at 10:03 on May 18, 2012 |
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May 18, 2012 10:00
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I had no idea what I was starting with that little innocent comment!
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Proteus4994 posted:If every loving Pokemon test post wasn't the same old boring poo poo we've seen a thousand times we wouldn't need the ban. would you believe a MLP mod does exist? http://ponymondawndusk.wikia.com/wiki/Ponymon_Dawn/Dusk_Wiki
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May 18, 2012 13:03
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Pokemon + My Little Pony sounds like a dangerous combination that would cause the LP forum to collapse within itself.
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I have a feeling that there would be no pleasure to be found in an lp of that mod.
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May 18, 2012 13:34
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mateo360 posted:would you believe a MLP mod does exist? Can you become a Ponymon Master??? Fortunately there's already an excellent LP of this on youtube RIGHT NOW
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May 18, 2012 13:45
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Brainamp posted:I have a feeling that there would be no pleasure to be found in an lp of that mod. I wouldn't even get any schadenfreude out of watching someone LP a game like that. EDIT: Roar posted:Fortunately there's already an excellent LP of this on youtube RIGHT NOW Oh goddamn. "Hi I'm a brony."
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May 18, 2012 13:47
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BrainWeasel posted:The source video is already encoded at 2.5kbps, and looks crystal clear to me. I'll try it again at a higher res but I'm not optimistic. quote:I've been avoiding making HD video because the source footage caps out at 512x448, and upsampling just to downsample seems wasteful and lossy. Will give it a try though.
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May 18, 2012 14:59
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Roar posted:Can you become a Ponymon Master??? oh god his mouse is in the middle of the screen. He's reading the text out loud. Oh god I don't think I can continue. I haven't even seen him battle a pony yet  Oh god one of the moves is called 'giggle', I literally cried out in pain at that.
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May 18, 2012 16:37
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Coolguye posted:I wouldn't be either. Here's practice. I think it looks pretty good in both 480p large-player and 720p large-player, but the upsampling is kind of noticeable in 720p fullscreen. e: Upping the bitrate of the 480p source to 4kbps did jack poo poo, as expected. BrainWeasel fucked around with this message at 18:08 on May 18, 2012 |
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May 18, 2012 18:01
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Mega64 posted:Pokemon + My Little Pony sounds like a dangerous combination that would cause the LP forum to collapse within itself. No, you're missing just a couple of things. A blind VLP of Pokemon + MLP would cause LP to collapse.
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TwoPair posted:No, you're missing just a couple of things. A blind VLP of Pokemon + MLP would cause LP to collapse. What about a blind subtitled VLP of a MLP Pokemon mod?
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e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'd accept this only if the subtitles were posted via extremely intrusive Youtube annotations  TwoPair posted:No, you're missing just a couple of things. A blind VLP of Pokemon + MLP would cause LP to collapse. Also the commentary should be split evenly between reading dialogue aloud, swearing whenever something bad happens, breathing directly into the microphone, chewing loudly, and singing along to the game music  also fanfiction loquacius fucked around with this message at 18:49 on May 18, 2012 |
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Niggurath posted:I see no noticeable problems video wise and you've got good audio balance, the one thing that I'd say you might want to work on is your pauses. I assume you might be reading off a script but some places that you pause are rather awkward (like mid-sentence where there isn't any real emphasis going on). I'm also curious if you plan on just doing Metroid 1 or will you be doing anymore of the classic series? A lot of mid-sentence pauses are a result of just completely losing my train of thought.  I certainly won't rule out doing more classic Metroid games in the future. I do love me some Metroid.Metroixer posted:I've been wanting to see a good Metroid LP for a while now, this seems pretty good. I liked the video, my only complaint is the autoducking is jarring. I recommend just not autoduck altogether, since having the game start blaring chiptunes into the ears whenever you stop talking just hurts. Good point. I'll make a version with a non-autoducked lower, but constant game audio level and see how it turns out. As for backtracking, I've planned out a route that minimizes contentless backtracking. There's only one big one, namely trudging out of Norfair after fighting Ridley, and that will certainly be dropped.
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May 18, 2012 19:05
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loquacius posted:e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'd accept this only if the subtitles were posted via extremely intrusive Youtube annotations And of course doing voices for every character as well as rewriting the main character as a self insert.
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May 18, 2012 19:11
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loquacius posted:e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'd accept this only if the subtitles were posted via extremely intrusive Youtube annotations Not a ridiculous amount of savestating, though?
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May 18, 2012 19:15
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mateo360 posted:would you believe a MLP mod does exist? Yes, I would absolutely believe this. I'm going to guess that the overlap between people in their 20s who still play Pokemon and people in their 20s who watch My Little Pony is pretty loving big.
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May 18, 2012 19:16
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And here I thought I was joking about the pony-themed Pokemon LP. poo poo. 
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May 18, 2012 19:32
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:And here I thought I was joking about the pony-themed Pokemon LP. You should be more careful. Making jokes about pony-themed anything causes it to phase into being. Kind of like Lovecraftian horrors, really.
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Roxors posted:You should be more careful. Making jokes about pony-themed anything causes it to phase into being. Kind of like Lovecraftian horrors, really. MLP themed Vocaloid singing Touhou remixes. Let's combine some of the worst fan circles and see what happens! I would not be surprised if this already exists. The internet is a strange and oft impenetrable place.
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May 18, 2012 20:03
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Proteus4994 posted:Yes, I would absolutely believe this. As someone who fits both, I'd like to see someone draw up this graph.
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May 18, 2012 21:08
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I thought this thread was created to make things more comprehensible, not to encourage anarchy and derailing. As for the watermarking and branding thing: There's no point in trying to label videos with your "brand" until you've already created a circle of people who have a positive response to your name. An intro announcing some unknown personality will discourage more people than it could possibly lure in, IMHO.
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steinrokkan posted:I thought this thread was created to make things more comprehensible, not to encourage anarchy and derailing. OH NO MY PRECIOUS SANDCASTLE!!!!!! When someone posts a test post the thread will get back on track. New Sandcastle threads always do this for a couple of pages.
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I know reading the text on the screen is the best way to make people yell at you in a voice VLP. But what about in a subtitled vlp? Would someone have to write the actual words on the screen in the subtitle bar and put them again on screen? What is the worst thing a subtitled VLP can do?
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Spintzel posted:I know reading the text on the screen is the best way to make people yell at you in a voice VLP. But what about in a subtitled vlp? Would someone have to write the actual words on the screen in the subtitle bar and put them again on screen? What is the worst thing a subtitled VLP can do? Start writing subtitled alternate dialog for every character and basically become a fanfiction. Kind of like whatever this thing is.
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steinrokkan posted:I thought this thread was created to make things more comprehensible, not to encourage anarchy and derailing.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:If not here, then it would only happen in better threads. Where the hell would you discuss LPs if not in the Sandcastle?
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steinrokkan posted:I thought this thread was created to make things more comprehensible, not to encourage anarchy and derailing. The thread has the paranthetical of argue about LPs here. Everyone is just doing their part in following the instructions, thank you.
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:Start writing subtitled alternate dialog for every character and basically become a fanfiction. I mean, even that could be okay if the game's actual dialog sucked and you were funny enough. Plenty of SSLPs do this kind of thing.
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BrainWeasel posted:Here's practice. I think it looks pretty good in both 480p large-player and 720p large-player, but the upsampling is kind of noticeable in 720p fullscreen. If you scale the video to 720 on your end and then encode it with a high bitrate, you should see a difference (assuming you want to keep it at the original video's resolution while benefiting from the increased encode quality Youtube HD offers). Although, 1080 would probably be better. What does YouTube do with videos scaled at 960, does anyone know? pun pundit fucked around with this message at 05:06 on May 19, 2012 |
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May 19, 2012 05:04
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If you really want to screw up subtitles, you have to focus on the form rather than the content.
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RoeCocoa posted:If you really want to screw up subtitles, you have to focus on the form rather than the content. This implies that they're in the same place all the time. You aren't doing it right unless you have to go hunting to find them.
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Be sure to use subtitles to draw attention away from all the action on screen; your audience doesn't need to see the game anyway, right? They should also be used extensively during cutscenes in games with lots of talking.
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pun pundit posted:If you scale the video to 720 on your end and then encode it with a high bitrate, you should see a difference (assuming you want to keep it at the original video's resolution while benefiting from the increased encode quality Youtube HD offers). Although, 1080 would probably be better. What does YouTube do with videos scaled at 960, does anyone know? That's what I did on that video (upscaled locally to 720, encoded at 5500 kbps, slightly higher than YT suggests).
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pun pundit posted:What does YouTube do with videos scaled at 960, does anyone know? Scales down to 720. Youtube always scales down to the nearest resolution (240, 360, 480, 720, 1080) as far as I've been able to tell. So a 1079 will get scaled down to 720, theoretically. I think I made a video accidently cropped 12 pixels below 720 and they only encoded it up to 480.
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BrainWeasel posted:Here's practice. I think it looks pretty good in both 480p large-player and 720p large-player, but the upsampling is kind of noticeable in 720p fullscreen. Hi, few ideas for you; If you need to make the piece of music longer, you maybe be able to cut and duplicate sections of the track to elongate it without anyone really noticing or getting annoyed, especially if it actually loops itself in some way anyway. Audacity can help you out there. I had to do this a lot for that one LP I actually did, since I replaced all the in game music with remastered versions the original composer made, but weren't intended to loop. Your video is filled with flashy effects and stuff, right? Presumably what you did was take your finished video, and upscale it to 720p or higher to get that quality on youtube? Given the amount of difference it's made (it eliminated the awful pixel dancing, for one), it's probably worth working on a 720p video as a base for those effects, especially for the text (unless you're already doing this). The background's scrolling doesn't seem as perfectly smooth as it could be, either, but maybe that's just me, though this may be an artifact of upscaling the finished product, as it's impossible to tell on the original video.
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Mastigophoran posted:The background's scrolling doesn't seem as perfectly smooth as it could be, either, but maybe that's just me, though this may be an artifact of upscaling the finished product, as it's impossible to tell on the original video. I think it's actually an artifact of the Animate filter in AviSynth. I did the slow scrolling by taking a long image and applying an Animate Crop to it. Animate does linear interpolation between the start and the end, but only integer values, so it looks kind of jerky sometimes. But if I start at 720p, then downsample, the result in 480p should approximate sub-pixel movement. Gonna try this next, thanks. I am learning a lot doing these test videos. vv e: That's what I meant too, but that it would look like that when played in the player at 480p. Me am good English today BrainWeasel fucked around with this message at 21:53 on May 19, 2012 |
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BrainWeasel posted:But if I start at 720p, then downsample, the result in 480p should approximate sub-pixel movement. Well, I meant more that you could then just leave it in 720p and upload it to youtube since it would eliminate a lot of the artefacts of having upscaled it since all your text/gradients/scrolling etc would be in 720p to begin with, but, what you said is probably true, too.
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